Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Aug 15, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2022-33989
CVE-2022-33989
Description
dproxy-nexgen (aka dproxy nexgen) uses a static UDP source port (selected randomly only at boot time) in upstream queries sent to DNS resolvers. This allows DNS cache poisoning because there is not enough entropy to prevent traffic injection attacks.
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Affected products
2- dproxy-nexgen/dproxy-nexgendescription
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References
3- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/14/3nvdExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- sourceforge.net/projects/dproxy/nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity22/presentation/jeitnernvdThird Party Advisory
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